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Boileau (French) [bwalo]

(Biographies / Boileau, Nicolas (1636-1711) M, French, WRITING: poet, WRITING: critic) Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). full name Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. 1636-1711, French poet and critic; author of satires, epistles, and L'Art poétique (1674), in which he laid down the basic principles of French classical literature

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